so the fact that it's paul ryan, that's a market in his favor. >> the fact he exists as paul ryan, not john boehner. >> the other thing is in the "washington post" story today, this deal, assuming there is a deal, doesn't have any of the hard stuff that would knock a deal out -- blow a deal out of the water to begin with. so that there's an increase in spending, yeah, that might be a problem. but all the hard decisions that usually have been in grand bargain deals aren't there. >> more optimistic about he can sell it to the house caucus. there has been complaints among republicans, especially on the appropriations committee, that sequestration is unlivable. >> that being the defense industry. >> yes, mostly. on top of that, the next which takes spending to $967 billion almost comes exclusively out of defense. another $20 billion cut around january 15th strictly from defense budgets. so there's an appetite among the hawkish wing of the house republicans to just get rid of this. they realize that if they are going to get rid of this, they have to give in a little bit. >> weirdly, sequest